First Southern Methodist Church
First Southern Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 2510 Hilltop Dr in Albany, GA 31707-1717. It is one of 222 churches in Albany, and one of 5 United Methodist congregations in the city.
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2510 Hilltop Dr, Albany, GA, 31707-1717Service times
Monday-Thursday | 9:00 a.m (as listed)
Phone: (229) 435-5113 · Website: http://athensfirstumc.org
First Southern Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,458 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Georgia — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
Ministries at First Southern Methodist Church
- Special Needs Ministry
- College & Young Adults
- Congregational Care
- Kids Ministry
- Missions
- Children's Music
- Youth Choir
- Adult Music
- Concert Series
- Christmas Event
- Recreation
- Small Groups
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The community around First Southern Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 39.3%
- Food Insecurity: 22.4%
- Obesity: 37.8%
- Child Poverty: 27.6% (8.8–46.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.1%
- Poverty Rate: 16.0% (8.9–23.1%)
- Diabetes: 14.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (6.6–16.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Southern Methodist Church
- Westview Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Liberty Parkway Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Hope City United Church — 0.6 mi away
- Move Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran LCMS — 0.6 mi away
- Lutheran Services Of Georgia — 0.7 mi away
- Sherwood — 0.7 mi away
- Albany Gospel Chapel — 0.8 mi away
- Amazing Grace Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Calvary Church — 0.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Porterfield Memorial United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Hines Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.7 mi away
- First United Methodist Church of Albany — 3.1 mi away
- Avalon United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.5 mi away